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The following books and websites can help you learn more about
polyamory - they were very helpful for me!

Books

Sacred Sexual Healing
by Kamala Devi
"This book is the most readable, down to earth book on tantra
I've found! It's engaging and accessible for beginners and masters
alike, and I highly recommend it! Kamala Devi was featured as the
amazing tantra teacher in our episode of MTV True Life 'I'm
Polyamorous.'"
Sacred Sexual Healing blows the bedroom doors off an
underground Tantra revolution, exposing the work of the modern sexual
healer and making available practical secrets. We offer dozens of
exercises to help women re-discover their libido, relieve pain during
intercourse and connect to their sexual intuition. Men will eliminate
fear of intimacy, cure performance anxiety, and learn to sexually
satisfy a woman. The intention of this book is to heal the greatest
collective wound on the planet: the separation between sex and spirit!

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual
Possibilities
by Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt
Considered by many to be required reading for those interested
in polyamory, this book is a very practical guide to handling multiple
partners. Written in a frank, easy to read style, it covers many issues,
skills and tips related to polyamorous lifestyles - including jealousy,
scheduling, resolving conflicts, and raising children.

Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining
Open Relationships
by Tristan Taormino
This book provides basic information concerning open or
non-monogamous relationships: the various types of arrangements,
psychological demands and difficulties, and practical considerations
involving going public, raising children, legalities, and safe sex
practices.

Open: Love, Sex & Life in an Open Marriage
by Jenny Block
Sex is on everyone's minds - we're talking about it, thinking
about it, watching television programs and movies about it, reading
about it, and writing about it. Open is a book about sex. It's about sex
within the confines of an open marriage. It's about the many ups and
downs Jenny Block has had as well as the consequences and lessons she's
learned from having made the decision to open her marriage.

The Polyamory Handbook
by Peter BensonThe Polyamory Handbook starts with describing what polyamory is,
and is not; but nearly all of this book comprises a comprehensive
guidebook about how to live this sometimes challenging but immensely
satisfying and growthful lifestyle and lovestyle, smoothly, happily,
successfully; and how to navigate any bumps in the road that you and
your partners may encounter. The book also makes clear that polyamory is
not for everyone; it does not try to "sell" polyamory to anyone.

Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
This sci-fi novel written in 1961 depicted the idea of group
households and line marriages in a positive, affirming way. This book
acted as many people's introduction into polyamory, though not all
modern polyamorists agree with its model.